One Other Thought About the “Real” Virginia

Obama raised $150 Million in September!

As if it isn’t obnoxious enough that McCain/Palin are playing the Rove divide American against American, they’re now playing parts of states against other parts of states.
I guess that McCain, Palin and Rep. Bachman believe that the only real Americans are the ones who vote for them. That’s not how it works here. We’re all Americans.

Let me get this right….with just over two weeks before the election, Obama suddenly is a Socialist? When the wealthy have to pay a bit more taxes, Obama is Socialist. When the wealthy & corporations receive tax breaks & the middle class & small business have to pick up the slack, it isn’t Socialism or a “redistribution of wealth”? Got it.

Technically yes. But we in the hinterlands look at DC as a big hole that we drop our money into. It doesn’t take too big a genius to look at the quality of life that we provide for the massive numbers of Government employees and then look around our communities and see companies, often regulated and taxed out of business, leave communities for greener pastures overseas to stay in business.
I for one am happy to see anyone with a good paying job with a career path but when people working in similar jobs in the “real world” are constantly underpressure to be productive, have lower wages than their government counterparts then something is wrong.
Yes Northern Virgina you are part of Virginia but you are more part of bloated DC than you are of your brethen elsewhere in the state.

Barack Obama raised $150m this month!
Enough to take on McCain and his slime machine!

Whats next is Bush going to declare marshal law and jail all Obama supporters ?
Will Bush install McCain President ?
I cant wait for this to be over!
Obama supporters USE YOUR POWER AND VOTE!

Gop are so skillfully divisive.
Patriotic / Unpatriotic
Pro american/ Anti American
Real Virginia / Fake(?) Virginia
Whatelse?

Obama raised $150 Million in September!
Obama will raise your taxes in January!

Jake – let us set aside for a moment that you are in the tank for Obama.
What the person was meaning when she was remarking the “real Virginia” is comparable to saying that New York City or Hollywood are not the “real America”.
We got what the Virginia reference meant, you are being silly.
Just put “Jake Tapper endorses Barack Obama” at the top of your blog and get it out of your system – quit hiding in the closet trying to pretend to be an objective, balanced journalist.

jpt writes:
“Um…isn’t the Pentagon in Northern Virginia?”

“General Powell seems to realize that there has been a fascist shift in America and it must be reversed if the Republic is to survive.”

Barack Obama raised $150m this month!
Enough to take on McCain and his slime machine!
Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 19, 2008 8:08:42 AM
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This shows just how much people want Republicans out of power and the White House.

The only constants of the McCain campaign have been wacky behavior, comments in poor taste, and a general utter lack of class.
They expect voters to put them in the White House? These people are so inept and classless they don’t even deserve to be allowed on a White House tour.

Real Virginia is to Northern Virginia as Upstate NY is to NYC. I know, because I’ve lived in both places. I’m happily a member of the former in either case.

I find it rather humorous (and maybe a little sad) that in an effort to identify with us common folk, the common, “Joes” as it were, the McCain campaign is impugning the entire community where the spokesperson and the candidate himself live and is headquartered.
To wit, Ms. Pfotenhauer lives in Oakton, VA (which is in Northern Virginia, not the “real” Virginia). McCain owns a 3-bedroom condo in Arlington, VA (which is also in Northern Virginia, not the “real” Virginia) and his campaign headquarters is in Mclean, VA (still in Northern Virginia, last I checked).
If this is such a “huge” issue for the campaign, why don’t they move their operations to Richmond, or to Winchester, or Blacksburg, down to where us common folks live and not near that big, ole scary and godlessly liberal Washington, D.C. Booooo!!! Then again, the areas where they live have a larger per capita income as compared with the rest of the state.
Hmmmm…. Maybe they just say they want to identify with us commoners while still “palling around” with the wealthy…. Hypocrisy anyone?

The problem is that all the parts of America are “real” in somebody’s perspective. We can pit these “realities” against each other or we can get them to work together.
Acknowleding and leveraging the diversity of the country is part of its strength should be at the center of a successful presidential candidate’s campaign.
On an unrelated note, wasn’t the part of Virginia in question part of the original DC cession that was ceded back to VA due to slavery issues in the capital?

Hey, so called Belle Starr, I’m a real Shirley, a real Lee, a person of Virginia heritage and not un-American because I am voting for Obama. I am voting for him and Biden because they are SMART and we’ve had enough of intellectually vacuous spoiled brats who send other people’s children off to war so they can line their trust fund pockets while in office. Do you feel you are safer or better off now than you were before the little git-off-the old-block got into office? Then vote for the old man who has pandered to the far far right just to get a base. But if you’d like to see this country pull together and become the great power it was meant to be once again, guided by intelligence and reverence for the Constitution, vote for Obama.

Yup. The Pentagon – most of the people who died there, most of Congress and lots and lots and lots of military families. The Palins just don’t get out much. I understood her comments about Europe – but gee, if they can afford three houses, three boats, a plane, and many many snowmobiles, it seems like they could take the kids on a trip to the nation’s capital. But maybe that is not what you do when Daddy is a secessionist.
Tucker Eskew, who tried to destroy John McCain and his family in 2000, and now works for McCain lives in northern Virginia too. John and Cindy also have a house there – one of seven? Or eight?

My question is: will a vote from someone in ‘real virginia’ count more than a vote from someone in ‘fake Virginia’? And, can we get the press to do a ‘penetrating investigation’ into these supposed voters in ‘fake virginia’ to determine which ones are against America? Who’s running the GOP these days, Josef Goebbels?